WEBVTT WHO HELPED KEEP H ALIVE.>> I'M LIKE, 'I JUST WANT TO GOTO SLEEP, STOP TALKING TO ME.'AND HE'S LIKE, 'NO DON'T GO TOSLEEP.YOU CAN'T GO TO SLEE' DAVID TERRA HANSEN SAYS IF SHE: HAD FALLEN ASLEEP, SHE MAY NOTBE HERE TODAY.>> I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE.I THOUGHT I WAS DOING TO DIE.IT WAS PRETTY BAD.DAVID SHE WAS HEADED HOME TO: GORHAM, WHEN ANOTHER DRIVERHIT HER, HEAD ON, ON ROUTE 25 INWESTBROOK.>> HE WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.IT WAS THIS HUGE BANG.CRAZY.I HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLESCREAMING.A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SCREAMING,DAVID AMID THAT SCREAMING, ACALMING VOICE A MAN AT HERWINDOW.A WMTW NEWS 8 VIEWER SENDING INTHIS PHOTO OF THE CRASH, IT'STHE FIRST TIME TERRA'S SEEN IT.YEA THAT'S MY CAR.OH MY GOD IT WAS ON FIRE?DAVID AND THAT MYSTERY VOICE AT: THE WINDOW, THE MAN SEEN HEREIN A RED JACKET.>> I NEVER EVEN LOOKED TO SEEHIM.IT WAS JUST HIS VOICE.DAVE -- HE STAYED WITH ME THEWHOLE TIME.HE SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO LEAVEYOUR SIDE UNTIL THEY MAKE ME.'HE STAYED THERE.DAVID NOW NURSING SHATTERED: BROKEN BONES AND LEARNING TOWALK AGAIN.>> WHEN I LOOK AT THAT I'M LIKEHOW AM I ALIVHANSEN HOPES TO THANK HER-- DAVID: HANSEN HOPES TO THANKHER ROADSIDE HERO WHO PROVIDEDSOME HUMOR AMID ALL THE PAIN, INPERSON.>> I KEPT SAYING I CAN'T FEEL MYLEGS AND HE SAID, 'ERE'S AREASON FOR THAT.DAVID SHE'S HOPING SOMEONE OUT: THERE MAY RECOGNIZE HIM, ATLEAST THE PART OF HIM THE CAMERACAUGHT.> HIS NAME WAS MARK OR MIKE.IT DEFINITELY STARTED WITHN M.DAVID AND SHE SAYS NOT EVERYONE: WOULD STOP TO HELP.SHE'S GOING TO PHYSICAL THERAPYAND ONE OF HER GOALIS TO WALKAGAIN.ANOTHER IS TO PUT A FATO THATCALMING VOICE.

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Updated: 8:39 AM CDT Mar 25, 2017

PORTLAND, Maine —

A Maine man has come forward as the mystery man in a photo shared across the state.

A mother who survived a head-on crash hoped the photo taken moments after the impact would reunite her with the unidentified man who she said saved her life.

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The Feb. 28 crash on Route 25 in Westbrook left Terra Hansen, 27, of Gorham, in the hospital for three weeks with several broken bones.

A good Samaritan came up to her window to help – but Hansen never got the man’s name.

The 39-year-old man, who wished to remain anonymous, worked for a volunteer fire department in Cumberland County. He said he comes from a family of first responders and EMTs.

Hansen said if she had fallen asleep, she may not be alive.

"I'm like, 'I just want to go to sleep, stop talking to me.'” Hansen said about the man. “And he's like, 'No don't go to sleep. You can't go to sleep.'”

"I thought I was going to die,” she said. “It was pretty bad."

Hansen was headed home to Gorham when another driver hit her head-on.

"He was right in front of me. It was this huge bang,” she said.”

Hansen became immobile and eventually had to be cut out of her car. She remembers the pain, other people screaming and a calming voice.

That mystery man was right at her window. A WMTW News 8 viewer who asked to remain anonymous sent in a photo of the crash showing the man, in a red jacket, at Hansen’s window.

"I never even looked to see him,” she said. “It was just his voice. He stayed with me the whole time. He said, 'I'm not going to leave your side until they make me.' He stayed there.”

Hansen will have to learn to walk again and hopes to thank her roadside hero in person.

"I kept saying I can't feel my legs and he said, 'There's a reason for that,” she said, letting out a laugh.

Besides having a red jacket, Hansen thought the man’s name starts with an M. She said it could be Mark or Mike. She also believes he was either a former firefighter or EMT.